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it entirely with their tax deductions so we either have to increase taxes on the middle class or he would have to have his tax plan add to the deficit and he hasn't been willing to say where he compromised. >> rose: that's where the rubber meets the ground for him. >> though those are all totally legitimate critiques of governor romney's plan, but i think the governor romney is being held to kind of a double standard on these things. i mean, candidate obama opposed an individual mandate on healthcare and got into office and saw the realty reality of where the votes were and decided he was for an individual mandate. >> candidate obama won't tell us what he wants to do on social security and what his ideas are for a grand bargain with the republicans, so i think governor romney on this point, yes, if you take strictly what he said and what he hasn't said it is not cle how itdds up but don't think there any mystery that if he not elected his tax plan would be, would resellable this but there is a way to swear some of the inconsistencies and fill in some of the holes and maybe there wouldn't
it entirely with their tax deductions so we either have to increase taxes on the middle class or he would have to have his tax plan add to the deficit and he hasn't been willing to say where he compromised. >> rose: that's where the rubber meets the ground for him. >> though those are all totally legitimate critiques of governor romney's plan, but i think the governor romney is being held to kind of a double standard on these things. i mean, candidate obama opposed an individual...
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that is otherwise known as a poll tax, during the jim crow era. in texas, only 81 of 254 counties in texas have a dmv. if you cannot have idea and you live and accounting without i.d., how are you supposed to get to an office in texas to be able to get an i.d.? there are a lot of problems in practicalities obtain this i.d. you have states that are rushing to implement these laws and are implementing them in 2012. you have a lot of commissions, the carter-baker commission after the 2000 election that says that need to wake two election cycles to implement this idea to make sure everything happens. the last thing i would say is of a vote is not like getting on an airplane or buying sudafed. it is a right that many people have died for in this country, that people have blood for in this country. anytime we restrict their right to vote, particularly on the basis of race or class, we should be very, very, very careful about doing it and only do it if there is a pressing need to do so. my feeling is there is no reason to have this kind of government- is
that is otherwise known as a poll tax, during the jim crow era. in texas, only 81 of 254 counties in texas have a dmv. if you cannot have idea and you live and accounting without i.d., how are you supposed to get to an office in texas to be able to get an i.d.? there are a lot of problems in practicalities obtain this i.d. you have states that are rushing to implement these laws and are implementing them in 2012. you have a lot of commissions, the carter-baker commission after the 2000 election...
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he said he calculates how much they pay in taxes. state income tax, state sales tax, gasoline tax. it added up to well over 50% of what they earn. your plan is to take the tax rate on successful small businesses from 35% to 40%. the national federation of independent businesses has said that will cost 700,000 jobs. i don't want to cost jobs. my priority is jobs. so what i do is i bring down the tax rates, lower the deductions and exemptions. the same idea behind simpson, by the way. lower the deductions and exemptions to create more jobs, because there is nothing better for getting us to a balanced budget than having more people working, earning more money, paying more taxes. that's by far the most effective way to get this budget balanced. >> you may want to move on to another topic, but i would say this to the american people. if you believe that we can cut taxes by $5 trillion and add $2 trillion in additional spending that the military is not asking for, $7 trillion, just to give you a sense, that's more than our entire defense budget, and you think that by closing loopholes an
he said he calculates how much they pay in taxes. state income tax, state sales tax, gasoline tax. it added up to well over 50% of what they earn. your plan is to take the tax rate on successful small businesses from 35% to 40%. the national federation of independent businesses has said that will cost 700,000 jobs. i don't want to cost jobs. my priority is jobs. so what i do is i bring down the tax rates, lower the deductions and exemptions. the same idea behind simpson, by the way. lower the...
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our taxes are just too low. we need higher taxes on wealthier people. >> we need jobs. >> there's not going to be a shortage of capital, there's plenty of capital, it's just awash in capital and that's not the problem. >> our problem is not-- is not that taxes are too low, they're not. because if they were lower we'd get more jobs and more revenue, that's exactly what we need, ben, let me tell you something, you raise taxes we're going back-- >> absolutely. i couldn't agree with that more. and the deficit gets with bigger and the deficit gets bigger. >> raise taxes and-- >> we've got, okay, adam. can you break this? what do you think? which side are you on here, a fiscal cliff, how do we address this, higher taxes, lower taxes? >> we won't have a sequester for more than a few days. i can see it happening, but it won't last very long. what we have to have higher taxes. >> no, come on. >> and we know that, we will. >> all right i tell you what-- >> you know what, we'll have double dip recession. >> we may be going
our taxes are just too low. we need higher taxes on wealthier people. >> we need jobs. >> there's not going to be a shortage of capital, there's plenty of capital, it's just awash in capital and that's not the problem. >> our problem is not-- is not that taxes are too low, they're not. because if they were lower we'd get more jobs and more revenue, that's exactly what we need, ben, let me tell you something, you raise taxes we're going back-- >> absolutely. i couldn't...
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this is a tax in and of itself. >> reporter: on health care -- >> i don't know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the kitchen table, and spent his energy and passion for two years fighting for obamacare instead of fighting for jobs for the american people. >> reporter: in the role of government -- >> the federal government has the capacity to help open up opportunitand create ladders of opportunity and to create ameworks where the american people can succeed. >> reporter: the 90 minute debate moderated by jim layer was the first opportunity for the candidates to go head-to- head. at times it was heated. >> solyndra and tester and inner one. i had a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers, he picks losers. >> for 18 months he's been running on the tax plan and now five weeks before the election he's saying the big bold idea is never mind. >> reporter: there was this memorable moment. >> 20 years ago i became the luckiest man on earth because michelle obama agreed the marry me.
this is a tax in and of itself. >> reporter: on health care -- >> i don't know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the kitchen table, and spent his energy and passion for two years fighting for obamacare instead of fighting for jobs for the american people. >> reporter: in the role of government -- >> the federal government has the capacity to help open up opportunitand create...
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minimum tax. when you do that over ten years you put $5 trillion hole in your revenue. so that's where obama gets $5 trillion tax cut. but governor romney says he will make up that money through eliminating loopholes, tax deductions that sort of thing but he hasn't specifically said which one his would target. but that's how he can say, i don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. obama can come back and say you haven't given specifics how can we believe it really adds up. in fact every study nonpartisan that has looked at this has said that you know, unless you really tweaked the numbers, there's not justify money out there to fill that $5 trillion hole. >> so, glenn, the president said she's the guy plan to cut $4 trillion in the deficit. here's how he describes that plan. >> the way we do it is $2.50 for every cut, we ask for a dollar of additional revenue. governor romney earlier mentioned the bowles-simpson commission. well that's how the commission bipartisan commission, that talked about how we shou
minimum tax. when you do that over ten years you put $5 trillion hole in your revenue. so that's where obama gets $5 trillion tax cut. but governor romney says he will make up that money through eliminating loopholes, tax deductions that sort of thing but he hasn't specifically said which one his would target. but that's how he can say, i don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. obama can come back and say you haven't given specifics how can we believe it really adds up. in fact every study...
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taxes. so you could argue we're already past that tippingpoint. the good news is, survey after survey, poll after poll, still shows that we are a center-right, 70-30 country. 70% of the americans want the american dream. they believe the in the american idea. only 30% want the welfare state. what that tells us at least half of those people currently in that category are there not of their wish or their will. gregg: is this doubling down on the entitlement dependency argument? i know parenthetically our own "fox news poll" found 63% of the americans who indeed agree with the argument that too many folks in america are dependent on the government? >> i think absolutely. i think part of the reason why that tape from paul ryan is not all that surprising is that because of the comments that mitt romney made about the 47%. but whatever, i think that the larger point is that it's not going to be all that shocking because most americans actually agree there is this sort of, we have a problem with en
taxes. so you could argue we're already past that tippingpoint. the good news is, survey after survey, poll after poll, still shows that we are a center-right, 70-30 country. 70% of the americans want the american dream. they believe the in the american idea. only 30% want the welfare state. what that tells us at least half of those people currently in that category are there not of their wish or their will. gregg: is this doubling down on the entitlement dependency argument? i know...
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their taxes to offset the tax which brings their trucks in line with restaurants. >>> family guy creator seth mcfarland will host the oscars. he says he's honored and hopes the academy doesn't find out he was master of ceremonies for the roast of charlie sheen. the 2012 acme awards will air -- academy awards will air on february 24th. >> saw that roast with charlie sheen, very funny, a little raunchy but pretty funny. >> 72 was the high, light showers in the metro area, that's kind of the bad news. the good news is we have light showers, nothing heavy for the metro area. october 1st is what, anita? >> it's the start of breast cancer awareness, also domestic violence. there's a lot of awareness months right now. >> let me show you the live shot outside, our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. >> beautiful, the white house in pink. >> 66 right now, light showers, dew point 53. the temps going down, dew point coming up to meet it, winds out of the west, northwest now at 5 miles an hour. satellite picture radar combined, this is going to be the main focus of the heavy activit
their taxes to offset the tax which brings their trucks in line with restaurants. >>> family guy creator seth mcfarland will host the oscars. he says he's honored and hopes the academy doesn't find out he was master of ceremonies for the roast of charlie sheen. the 2012 acme awards will air -- academy awards will air on february 24th. >> saw that roast with charlie sheen, very funny, a little raunchy but pretty funny. >> 72 was the high, light showers in the metro area,...
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he has lied over and over again about the $5 trillion tax cuts. on abc last night, jon karl said that is mostly fiction. multiple times. yes, both of them -- we are going to hear -- there wasn't much of a difference between both of them. i did not see obama differentiate himself -- >> you are planning to vote for mitt romney? >> yes, sir. >> thanks for the culprit last caller -- thanks for the call. at last caller on the independent line. >> i watched the debate last night on mute. >> did you watch it with closed caption? >> yes. i wanted to see the body language. i thought barack obama looked relaxed, a little too relaxed. overall, the body language, and then when i read the text, i think mitt romney shows a lack of integrity. that was the thing that kind of really bothered me, because he looked into the camera and said things that have been tested as far as being mostly false. i do believe that the president missed some opportunities. as a person who follows everything very closely, i did not want to hear something repeated, but i understand how
he has lied over and over again about the $5 trillion tax cuts. on abc last night, jon karl said that is mostly fiction. multiple times. yes, both of them -- we are going to hear -- there wasn't much of a difference between both of them. i did not see obama differentiate himself -- >> you are planning to vote for mitt romney? >> yes, sir. >> thanks for the culprit last caller -- thanks for the call. at last caller on the independent line. >> i watched the debate last...
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he's going to pre him from very specifics on your tax program and at you're goingo phase out as far as deductis are concerned, all ofhat. is the governor going to be able to parry, can he parry? can he thinkast enough on his feet to block inevitably at's going toom his way? >> hebsolutely can. if you reme debates with newt gingrich, speaker gingr chs migration policy. he was reallyoing after him about deporting grandmoer he areat response. we can't deport 11 milli grandmothers. there aren't 11illion grandmotrs that wre poing. so he can. can rort. whathe governo has goto do it's not about parrying, it's about going on offense. it's aut starting the debate on offense d finishing the debate on offee. >>ill: remember, though, because i' debated bak twice, i mean, he's not jimmy caer. agan was theem tate who destyed cart. obama is muc quicy a confrontaonal man, am i correct on thathe's not me. he not looking r the fight. heoesn't rish the debate. >> that's wh hapnedhe first obably 15 primary detes. he stayed t ou t fray and just sort ofave histhat's right. an let every ese beat each othe up
he's going to pre him from very specifics on your tax program and at you're goingo phase out as far as deductis are concerned, all ofhat. is the governor going to be able to parry, can he parry? can he thinkast enough on his feet to block inevitably at's going toom his way? >> hebsolutely can. if you reme debates with newt gingrich, speaker gingr chs migration policy. he was reallyoing after him about deporting grandmoer he areat response. we can't deport 11 milli grandmothers. there...
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texass, health care, jobs, the taxes, health care, jobs, those were the big subjects. >> reporter: charger mitt romney came out strong in yesterday's first showdown between the candidates and a cnn snap poll shows out of a sampling of voters who watched the debate, 67% say romney won. versus obama's 25%. the first presidential debate focused on domestic issues and the candidates found plenty to spar over. >> i like the fact that if my state we had republicans and democrats come together and work together. what you did instead was to push through a plan without a zippable republican vote. >> over the that's two years health care premiums have gone up. it's true and they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years. >> reporter: in the and the deaf it the -- and the deficit. >> i put together a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. >> my number one principle is there'll be no tax cut that adds to the deficit. >> reporter: the president challenged thnumbers. >> it is not possible to come up with enough deductions and loopholes that only affect high income individuals to avoid e
texass, health care, jobs, the taxes, health care, jobs, those were the big subjects. >> reporter: charger mitt romney came out strong in yesterday's first showdown between the candidates and a cnn snap poll shows out of a sampling of voters who watched the debate, 67% say romney won. versus obama's 25%. the first presidential debate focused on domestic issues and the candidates found plenty to spar over. >> i like the fact that if my state we had republicans and democrats come...
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my my basic problem and we can get into the calculus of how many people don't pay taxes for whatever reason my basic problem for this is that if you look at people that are struggling in this country sometimes it's not an issue of unemployment sometimes it's an issue of over employment they might have to have five jobs to get by they might have back breaking work and that work is far more tough than the people sitting pretty in the top percentage of this country that is that can get out of taxes because they've got fancy attorneys that pay very little income tax let's suppose that are armed with and he would argue that the dependence on reliance is not a good thing we want to help people get off that he's not saying abandon those people and it's actually not anything about more people now he's not he doesn't want to abandon the thirty percent he's saying that seventy percent right now are for so they don't want the american pilot i'd like to like i want to tell us how you really think everybody wants to marry the american dream that anybody actually going to say i want to know i'm ha
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and the atm and the tax taxes, reduce dividend and capital gains taxes. that's 6 trillion. what he's saying tonight is he's going to pay for it by closing loopholes or preferences but won't tell you which ones. maybe the chain can capitalize on that as john said earlier, but i think it does beg the question, why couldn't barack obama capitalize on that. >> rose: kathy, you wanted to say something. >> charlie i was wondering halfway through the debate whether the campaign had made a strategic decision, the likability advantage that the president has is so valuable to them that they didn't want to jeopardize that by him attacking mitt romney and coming across as unlikeable or less likeable, because you know it was astonishing that he didn't go after mitt romney. i was just talking to david -- in the room just a couple minutes ago, he made the case far more convincingly, far more aggressively and concisely for what president obama was trying to lay out the next four years than obama himself did up on the stage. i mean there was just time and again mitt romney managed to seize
and the atm and the tax taxes, reduce dividend and capital gains taxes. that's 6 trillion. what he's saying tonight is he's going to pay for it by closing loopholes or preferences but won't tell you which ones. maybe the chain can capitalize on that as john said earlier, but i think it does beg the question, why couldn't barack obama capitalize on that. >> rose: kathy, you wanted to say something. >> charlie i was wondering halfway through the debate whether the campaign had made a...
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goes over the so-called fiscal cliff in january, it will cost almost 90% of americans more in taxes for a total of $536 billion. taxes for a typical middle income family making 40 to $64,000 a year could go up by $2,000. >>> in california, governor jerry brown signed a bill that would allow half a million young illegal immigrants who qualify for the federal work permit program to obtain driver's licenses. >>> near hong kong at least 36 people were killed when a boat filled with holiday party goers collidewide a ferry and sank. it is the deadliest accident there in years. >>> a house in clam mouth falls, oregon, that was sold this summer turned out to be a meth lab. it had toxic chemicals 80 times. the family who bought the foreclosed house from the government got sick and now has few options. >>> the white house is lit up in pink to mark october as breast cancer awareness month. new york's empire state building is also bathed in pink. and even buckingham palace in london has gone pink to support the breast cancer awareness campaign >>> and now here's an early look at how wall street's g
goes over the so-called fiscal cliff in january, it will cost almost 90% of americans more in taxes for a total of $536 billion. taxes for a typical middle income family making 40 to $64,000 a year could go up by $2,000. >>> in california, governor jerry brown signed a bill that would allow half a million young illegal immigrants who qualify for the federal work permit program to obtain driver's licenses. >>> near hong kong at least 36 people were killed when a boat filled...
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mostly corporate tax giving to democrats that republicans and they're working with incumbents. so it makes it, it's almost like the game is very tilted against anybody who wants to try to crack into the process. that's what's difficult. and super pacs are not liked by incumbents because they can hold the office or to account. the incumbent doesn't like the. the traditional pacs are always going to go and give money to the incumbents spent by the hope would be, it's still perverse. i would still rather have the opponent pointing out those things in a super pac. i would rather choose the campaign that i set out in some other entities. there some solutions. good or bad, that's one solution. the disclosure. certainly is one thing. there are multiple solutions but to me it is frustrating that the candidates voice has been muted. everything has been an impact of free media frankly on it. but on the senate race and the house races, just these two men, two ladies talk to one another and to find out between each other. and i think we probably would get a little more patient out of them
mostly corporate tax giving to democrats that republicans and they're working with incumbents. so it makes it, it's almost like the game is very tilted against anybody who wants to try to crack into the process. that's what's difficult. and super pacs are not liked by incumbents because they can hold the office or to account. the incumbent doesn't like the. the traditional pacs are always going to go and give money to the incumbents spent by the hope would be, it's still perverse. i would still...
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give them tax breaks. do not tax them or do anything wrong to them. if you tax them more, they will not want to grow. they will not want to hire people. give them tax breaks. >> how do you think the race will go in florida? for mitt'm voting romney. >> next caller is on our independent line. go ahead. caller: this is wade. >> go ahead with your comments. caller: it is important to us that governor romney is talking about first amendment rights and religious freedom. sometimes that gets played over in america. as victims in a church in mississippi, we have had many a salted. we're not even allowed to eat in certain restaurants. we are hoping that the religious persecution, which has been ongoing, perhaps when mr. romney becomes our next president, we are hoping that whoever gets the office, we have the worst civil rights violation in mississippi and the correction in the local and state government in mississippi. lives are being hurt. children are being kidnapped. i was very motivated to your mitt romney talk about the first amendment. >> we will get a
give them tax breaks. do not tax them or do anything wrong to them. if you tax them more, they will not want to grow. they will not want to hire people. give them tax breaks. >> how do you think the race will go in florida? for mitt'm voting romney. >> next caller is on our independent line. go ahead. caller: this is wade. >> go ahead with your comments. caller: it is important to us that governor romney is talking about first amendment rights and religious freedom. sometimes...
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i'm not in favor of a five trillion dollar tax cut that's not my plan my plan is not to put in place any tax cut that will add to the deficit that's point one so you may keep referring to it as a five trillion dollar tax cut but that's not my plan ok simple fact we take in about two trillion dollars a year in taxes as one point nine two last trillion dollars last year will be a little over two trillion this year inflation the economy grows over ten years as twenty trillion dollars right we're all with it and they are arithmetic here figure in place in a growing economy over a ten year period it's really going to be about twenty five trillion mitt romney wants to chop twenty percent off that was twenty percent to twenty five five how can mitt romney stand there and say to all of america i'm not in favor of a five trillion dollar tax cut when you just spent a year running around saying i want to twenty percent across the board tax cut all taxes that's five trillion dollars this math is indisputable when are you going to have to love the conservative defend mitt romney here because i re
i'm not in favor of a five trillion dollar tax cut that's not my plan my plan is not to put in place any tax cut that will add to the deficit that's point one so you may keep referring to it as a five trillion dollar tax cut but that's not my plan ok simple fact we take in about two trillion dollars a year in taxes as one point nine two last trillion dollars last year will be a little over two trillion this year inflation the economy grows over ten years as twenty trillion dollars right we're...
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the -- there is a 4.8% tax, an additional 0.9% on your medicare tax. when does that, if you combine it, it is almost 5% increase without reversing of the bush tax cut. >> it is a substantial tax increase. >> for people like us with substantial incomes. >> i am the tax cut. the part of that i would endorse is the increase in the medicare tax. it is on pleasant and it is unpalatable. that is step one. >> what will the average person pay for their medicare tax a month for how long and when to get the 0.9% added? >> it is a good question. >> is added after one to $25,000? >> i think it is added after $200,000, or $250,000. i am not sure. right now, the medicare taxes 1.45% on all of your salary income. it would go to 2.35%. >> both sides talk about the $750 billion savings. [laughter] who is right? >> we had both become incredibly frustrated. it has to do with the way this is talked about in washington. it has nothing to do with what real people talk about with real money in their lives. the current projection is medicare spending would increase by hundred
the -- there is a 4.8% tax, an additional 0.9% on your medicare tax. when does that, if you combine it, it is almost 5% increase without reversing of the bush tax cut. >> it is a substantial tax increase. >> for people like us with substantial incomes. >> i am the tax cut. the part of that i would endorse is the increase in the medicare tax. it is on pleasant and it is unpalatable. that is step one. >> what will the average person pay for their medicare tax a month for...
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its own police force, no income tax, no sales tax, no capital gains tax to all the property tax and no federal regulation. it sounds good to me. the man behind it joins us now from honduras. you came on the show a year ago to discuss the idea of a free city and its thousand you have made progress. >> we made considerable progress. we expect we will be able to break ground within 30 days after the honduran government finalizes the legislation identifying the regions and also appointing a governor. john: already the honduran legislature passed the bill authorizing the general principles 126-1. they are behind it. >> incredibly popular. congress realizes the best hope for prosperity is to create a special development regions. model that the special development regions that have been so spectacularly successful in china which has cities scale special development regions. also dubai which had 110-acre region that had its own legal system that imported british common law "by international financial center which resulted in billions of dollars of capital flowing in and one of the greatest fin
its own police force, no income tax, no sales tax, no capital gains tax to all the property tax and no federal regulation. it sounds good to me. the man behind it joins us now from honduras. you came on the show a year ago to discuss the idea of a free city and its thousand you have made progress. >> we made considerable progress. we expect we will be able to break ground within 30 days after the honduran government finalizes the legislation identifying the regions and also appointing a...
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payroll tax, real estate tax, gas tax, on and on and on. the president raises the rates to 5%, most businesses work on 5% or 8%. how much more can they sustain? that reduces jobs, kills us. neil: that's your point; right, dave? >> exactly. you know, there's no 5% there. our goal is 2 #.5%, neil. our goal -- >> if we're lucky. neil: goal is 2.5% -- >> in a good economy. 2.5% net in a good economy in the business we do today. add 5% there -- >> you're done. >> 2.5% in the red, that's right. neil: if you hear mitt romney saying i'm going to essentially get off your back, going to roll back regulations. he was not specific which, make sure the government cools it on taxes, didn't say to the degree of what allowances and writeoffs and deductions he limits, were you either troubled by the fact it might be a wash? that you, for example, in your case for your catering business, you might see, butch, no tax savings at all, but you might have a lower rate, but can't deduct as much. >> that will kill us. without disposable income for me to spend or gr
payroll tax, real estate tax, gas tax, on and on and on. the president raises the rates to 5%, most businesses work on 5% or 8%. how much more can they sustain? that reduces jobs, kills us. neil: that's your point; right, dave? >> exactly. you know, there's no 5% there. our goal is 2 #.5%, neil. our goal -- >> if we're lucky. neil: goal is 2.5% -- >> in a good economy. 2.5% net in a good economy in the business we do today. add 5% there -- >> you're done. >> 2.5%...
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he is an interesting position on tax and oh by the way he is lying his ass off. we have factored that in now. >> stephanie: yesterday's speech on foreign policy won't that have some effect over time as well? >> well -- i think -- i think that's -- if you want to look for a silver lining in both of the polls, it is that they are a snapshot taken right in the heart of what should have been a bounce. so we'll see what happens in the middle of next week. i was resistant to the notion, but i'm over it to now that that debate performance was a serious, serious blunder. >> stephanie: you write this week it has been pointed out that romney has become quite a remarkable liar. he lies by commission of course. and lies by admission namely in his resolution determination not to be specific about what deductions he is planning to end. >> they are particularly good at office [ inaudible ] mathematics. i'm particularly good at english. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: exactly. >> and that's hard by the way. it's very hard to throw poo efficiently. but he threw it -- we get to talk li
he is an interesting position on tax and oh by the way he is lying his ass off. we have factored that in now. >> stephanie: yesterday's speech on foreign policy won't that have some effect over time as well? >> well -- i think -- i think that's -- if you want to look for a silver lining in both of the polls, it is that they are a snapshot taken right in the heart of what should have been a bounce. so we'll see what happens in the middle of next week. i was resistant to the notion,...